If you want to understand what Net Neutrality really means... watch this video... and why Corporations and Government are very interested in ending it. This is an issue all about keeping democracy alive. Be informed! Be active! Be Free!
The entire scare over Net Neutrality glosses over one very important issue. There is not an unlimited ammount of bandwidth. Going to digital radio and TV frees up some of the over the air bandwidth. Yet you have people crying it a big business plot to sell TVs! DUH, NO! not all frequencies are equal, the ones we now use for over the air TV is quality bandwidth, able to go thur walls easily. As analog it's wasted on a few channels, so digital is the smart thing to do.
You can only lay so much cable, and wired lines. Optical show promise but is expensive and difficult to implement, you won't see a digital optical lines going into home for some time.
Bandwidth hogs are an issue as well. The average internet user uses little bandwidth in a month but you have a small percent who use large amounts every day. People hosting file sharing (bittorrent) sites can make your quality of service sink if you are on the same line. I see nothing wrong with service providers doing "packet shaping" to throttle back large downloads so everybody else does not have to wait just to get their email. But when they do this people cry Net Neutrality because it took and extra 3 hours to download that illegally copy of Iron Man from a Bittorent site.
I can see where the current "all you can eat" service will have to give way to a pay for what you use formula. If you merely use the internet to get email and Google information, why should you pay $50 a month while the guy next door spend all day sucking down bandwidth paying online games pays the same?
YouTube is the LAST place you want to get info on any subject, especially one as complex as how the internet works.
The entire scare over Net Neutrality glosses over one very important issue. There is not an unlimited ammount of bandwidth. Going to digital radio and TV frees up some of the over the air bandwidth. Yet you have people crying it a big business plot to sell TVs! DUH, NO! not all frequencies are equal, the ones we now use for over the air TV is quality bandwidth, able to go thur walls easily. As analog it's wasted on a few channels, so digital is the smart thing to do.
ReplyDeleteYou can only lay so much cable, and wired lines. Optical show promise but is expensive and difficult to implement, you won't see a digital optical lines going into home for some time.
Bandwidth hogs are an issue as well. The average internet user uses little bandwidth in a month but you have a small percent who use large amounts every day. People hosting file sharing (bittorrent) sites can make your quality of service sink if you are on the same line. I see nothing wrong with service providers doing "packet shaping" to throttle back large downloads so everybody else does not have to wait just to get their email. But when they do this people cry Net Neutrality because it took and extra 3 hours to download that illegally copy of Iron Man from a Bittorent site.
I can see where the current "all you can eat" service will have to give way to a pay for what you use formula. If you merely use the internet to get email and Google information, why should you pay $50 a month while the guy next door spend all day sucking down bandwidth paying online games pays the same?
YouTube is the LAST place you want to get info on any subject, especially one as complex as how the internet works.